This is being reported in reliable Belgian outlet Sport/Foot, kindly translated by our friends at Sport Witness.

Doku currently plies his trade for Anderlecht, who have a terrific reputation of developing youngsters – and is a star for Belgium’s U17 side.

Premier League superstars such as Romelu Lukaku and Vincent Kompany originally came through the ranks here, as did the highly rated Youri Tielemans, currently of AS Monaco.

We don’t know anything about Doku, but can assure him he’s making a smart choice.

He’ll get to work with Steven Gerrard for the U18s initially, before hopefully, eventually stepping up to the U23s.

At the moment, we have players like Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ben Woodburn, Harry Wilson (on loan), Dominic Solanke and Joe Gomez who have developed from youth team players to potential internationals under Jurgen Klopp’s guidance.